Well you can't really require identification and if you do you're placing undue trust in a system that would make no difference to pro-social users and grant ma

Well you can't really require identification and if you do you're placing undue trust in a system that would make no difference to pro-social users and grant malicious users more trust than is deserved. I agree that phone book data seemed just annoying at the time, but in hindsight it was a bad idea to normalize letting other people sell your data. Just look where we are now - I imagine a society more privacy focused when it was just annoying might not end up in a surveillance state quite so quickly. Hindsight 20/20 and all, so I'm just looking at the past through todays lens and wondering if the modest (at best) convenience was worth the normalization of letting other people sell our data.